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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of South Holland District Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official South Holland website
37,490 approved · 4,543 refused · 1,375 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 6 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 10 Nov 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Bank House Farm, Bensgate Fleet Spalding Lincs
Received 4 Mar 1997B1359 Gedney Drove End Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Aug 1993Crowland Poultry Unit Carrington Drove Crowland PE6 0BZ
Received 8 Mar 2012Home Farm Sutton Road Sutton St James
Received 11 Aug 2005Land in front of Staincliffe Advertising Pinchbeck Road Spalding PE11 1QL
Received 4 Oct 2021Land rear of 1 Kings Road and 55A, 61 and 63 Pinchbeck Road Spalding
Received 2 Mar 20045 OAK SQUARE CROWLAND SPALDING PE6 0DX
Received 30 Nov 2016PEAR TREE FARM GLENSIDE SOUTH WEST PINCHBECK SPALDING PE11 3NH
Received 18 Nov 2014Marsh Road Gedney Drove End Spalding Lincs
Received 11 Oct 1999JZ Flowers SuperFlora Washway Road Holbeach Spalding
Received 21 Sept 202389 West Elloe Avenue Spalding Lincs
Received 20 Jul 1999Land between 19 and 25 Pennygate Spalding Lincs PE11 1NL
Received 10 Jan 2011BILLS JUNK SHOP 14 BRIDGE ROAD SUTTON BRIDGE SPALDING PE12 9UA
Received 28 May 2015Land adjacent to 'Greenways' West Drove Gedney Hill Spalding
Received 1 Oct 1997THE ABBEYGATE RETIREMENT HOME 22 HIGH STREET MOULTON SPALDING PE12 6QB
Received 13 May 201628 GRANGE DRIVE SPALDING PE11 2DX
Received 4 Jul 20164 Allenbys Chase Sutton Bridge
Received 12 Feb 2007Mill Cottage Main Road Shepeau Stow Spalding
Received 9 Sept 1996210 Spalding Road Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3PB
Received 27 Jul 20056 Dozens Bank West Pinchbeck PE11 3NF
Received 22 Aug 2007Railway Lane Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs
Received 28 Mar 199690 Harvester Way Crowland Peterborough PE6 0DA
Received 14 Oct 19992 Near Chappells Main Road Deeping St Nicholas
Received 25 Feb 2005Land adj. to 28 Green Lane Spalding Lincs PE11 2YD
Received 26 Feb 2020Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for South Holland District Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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